X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/f6bcfd974ef26faf6f91a62cac09827e09463fd1..4104ed92a537f36f7f41ce07d34cadbe4d78685c:/docs/latex/wx/url.tex

diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/url.tex b/docs/latex/wx/url.tex
index c648fb918a..7c1a4a3b7e 100644
--- a/docs/latex/wx/url.tex
+++ b/docs/latex/wx/url.tex
@@ -32,7 +32,11 @@
 
 \func{}{wxURL}{\param{const wxString\&}{ url}}
 
-Constructs an URL object from the string.
+Constructs a URL object from the string.  The URL must be valid according
+to RFC 1738.  In particular, file URLs must be of the format
+'file://hostname/path/to/file'.  It is valid to leave out the hostname
+but slashes must remain in place-- i.e. a file URL without a hostname must
+contain three consecutive slashes.
 
 \wxheading{Parameters}
 
@@ -100,7 +104,7 @@ It can be one of these errors:
 \func{wxInputStream *}{GetInputStream}{\void}
 
 Creates a new input stream on the the specified URL. You can use all but seek
-functionnality of wxStream. Seek isn't available on all stream. For example,
+functionality of wxStream. Seek isn't available on all stream. For example,
 http or ftp streams doesn't deal with it.
 
 \wxheading{Return value}